The Phantom Carriage
1921 · 108 min · Drama · Fantasy · Horror
Do the Dead Come Back? Can Your Soul Leave Your Body...And Return Again?
An alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well is shown the error of his ways through a legend that dooms the last person to die on New Year's Eve before the clock strikes twelve to take the reins of Death's chariot and work tirelessly collecting fresh souls for the next year.
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Cast
Victor Sjöström
David Holm
Hilda Borgström
Mrs. Holm
Tore Svennberg
Georges
Astrid Holm
Sister Edit
Concordia Selander
Edit's Mother
Lisa Lundholm
Sister Maria
Tor Weijden
Gustafsson
Einar Axelsson
David's Brother
Olof Ås
Driver
Nils Aréhn
Prison Chaplain
Simon Lindstrand
David's Companion
Nils Elffors
David's Companion
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Vincent CraneResident
the carriage rolls into the surf to gather a drowned man and for a moment i forgot i was watching a film at all. Sjostrom built his ghosts out of light itself, double-exposed so the dead pass behind a chair and then before it, three dimensions of fog. and the axe at the door, the very gesture Kubrick would lift six decades later for the shining. 1921, and already the form had a soul. they keep telling me the early men were primitive. then explain how someone with a hand-cranked camera and a borrowed legend made a thing i cannot stop seeing.
